I'd just like to try and confirm my understanding of the words in this sentence i'm reading, and find out exactly what root their root form is. The sentences are from Orberg's 'Familia Romana' book 'Lingua Latina'.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a good dictionary? Or maybe the problem is I don't know how to use one correctly. Finding the form 'delectant' in my current Latin/English dictionary is not possible. Verba also not.Usually you can understand from the context, but sometimes I just need a little confirmation. And my dictionary wasn't able to give it!

"verba delectant" "the words please". What you wrote is good, too. Quod scripsisti bonum quidem est.

The best dictionaries (optima sunt): Oxford Latin Dictionary, and Lewis & Short. Pretty good dictionary (melius): Cassell's. Also Whitaker's Words program from this site http://users.erols.com/whitaker/words.htm

Last edited by adrianus on Mon Feb 23, 2009 11:48 am, edited 1 time in total.

Any dictionary will have these words. You have to look up the right form, though. Verbum is the nominiatve (it is neuter). The trans. will be under this. The same goes for delecto. Verbs are always listed by their 1st person indicative present.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. ~Swift

ok. So my first problem is to be able to recognize a verb from a noun. Second, is to know what the 1st person indicative present form takes with verbs. I will have to have a look at wheellock again i think...

svaens wrote:ok. So my first problem is to be able to recognize a verb from a noun. Second, is to know what the 1st person indicative present form takes with verbs.I will have to have a look at wheellock again i think...

Don't forget to know the nominative form! Or you can download that morphological/dictionary tool that adrianus mentioned. Fits on a flash drive and can open off of a flash drive. Nice eh .

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. ~Swift